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11. Yates Thompson MS 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 28
Title:
Secreta secretorum, Il Tesoro and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Pseudo-Aristotle, Secreta secretorum. ff. 43v-130r: Brunetto Latini, translated by Bono Giamboni, Il Tesoro (translation of Li Livres dou Tresor). ff. 130v-143v: Miscellaneous texts. ff. 144r and 144v are blank. Decoration: The decoration of the manuscript has been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1425
Extent:

1 volume

12. Yates Thompson MS 30

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 30
Title:
Book of Hours ('The Hours of Laudomia de' Medici')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar; ff. 14r-58v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 61r-63r: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 67r-74r: Seven Penitential Psalms; ff. 74r-80v: Litany; ff. 83r-109v: Office of the Dead; ff. 112r-114v: Office of the Holy Cross; ff. 118r-121v: Gradual Psalms. There are blank folio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1500-1510
Extent:

1 volume

13. Yates Thompson MS 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 31
Title:
Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version). The text is adapted from a Provençal poem composed between 1288 and 1292. This manuscript is one of five known copies in Catalan. Decoration: 1 small miniature, accompanied by a large decorated initial and a full foliate b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Catalan
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

14. Yates Thompson MS 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 32
Title:
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1485-1490
Extent:

1 volume

15. Yates Thompson MS 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 35
Title:
Jean Cuvelier, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, an epic poem in Middle French written by Jean Cuvelier, recounting the chivalric deeds of the French hero, Bertrand du Guesclin (b. 1320, d. 1380), Breton knight and military commander during the Hundred Years War. The manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1380-1392
Extent:
1 volume

16. Yates Thompson MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 36
Title:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia
Scope & Content:
Dante Alighieri, Divina commedia. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date for the manuscript of after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral, under construction during these years. Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-63v): Inferno. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Nel mezo d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1444-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

17. Yates Thompson MS 47

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 47
Title:
John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-108r : John Lydgate, Lives of St Edmund and St Fremund. f. ixr: Added English proverb in a 15th-century hand, 'A man without mercie of mercie shall misse / Out hee shall have mercie that mercifull is'. f. 108v: Added English rhyme (?), partially erased, in a 15th-century hand: '... in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
between 1461 and c 1475
Extent:

1 volume

18. Yates Thompson MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 51
Title:
Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (The Tale of the Rout of Mamai). The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoi [Дмитрий Иванович Донской] (b. 1350, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

1 volume